The Werewolf Murders

DeAndrea has series with different protagonists. This book is one of his Professor Niccolo Benedetti series as was his Edgar-winning The Hog Murders. It's a good mystery, well-written, and (per the other 2 books of his I've read) has considerable humor in it. Though the one Matt Cobb series book I've read, KILLED IN FRINGE TIME: A Matt Cobb Mystery, was even funnier IMHO. Some examples "Werewolf Murders": p. 28: "His genes had left him down by giving him a pair of eyes so myopic he needed glasses to figure out which wall the eye chart was hung on" and p. 107: "He tried thinking of the next one as an escargot rather than, say, slug-on-the-half-shell, but that didn't work." In this book, Bennedetti's assistant, PI Ron Gentry is accompanied by his wife--psychologist Janet Higgins--who provides considerable insights into the intriguing characters, such as: p. 34: "She doubted anybody would want to study the workings of other people's minds if they found their own uninteresting" and p. 35: "Criminals, no matter how small-time, no matter how frequently they went to jail, were invincible egotists...Mostly, people stole and beat and killed out of an overweening sense that they had the right to whatever they wanted, to the gratification of every whim." This is a fun series, I plan to read more--and more Matt Cobb as well. I believe he has also written under the name Philip DeGrave & also writes historical and espionage novels.